Creating the Notes application

Let's start creating the Notes application as before, by using the Express generator to give us a starting point:

$ mkdir notes$ cd notes$ npm install express-generator@4.x$ ./node_modules/.bin/express --view=hbs --git .destination is not empty, continue? [y/N] y   create : .   create : ./package.json   create : ./app.js   create : ./.gitignore   create : ./public   create : ./routes   create : ./routes/index.js   create : ./routes/users.js   create : ./views   create : ./views/index.hbs   create : ./views/layout.hbs   create : ./views/error.hbs   create : ./bin   create : ./bin/www   create : ./public/stylesheets   create : ./public/stylesheets/style.css   install dependencies:     $ cd . && npm install   run the app:     $ DEBUG=notes:* npm start create ...

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